to develop a _man_ into a Buddha, and _the iron will to become one_ runs throughout all the successive births, what shall we call that which thus wills and perseveres? Character? One’s individuality: an individuality but partly manifested in any one birth, but built up of fragments from all the births?” (_Bud. Cat., Appendix_ A. 137.) [37] MAHAT or the “Universal Mind” is the source of Manas. The latter is Mahat, _i.e._, mind, in man. Manas is also called _Kshetrajna_, “embodied Spirit,” because it is, according to our philosophy, the _Manasa-putras_, or “Sons of the Universal Mind,” who _created_, or rather produced, the _thinking_ man, “_manu_,” by incarnating in the _third Race_ mankind in our Round. It is Manas, therefore, which is the real incarnating and permanent _Spiritual Ego_, the INDIVIDUALITY, and our various and numberless personalities only its external masks. [38] It is on this transgression that the cruel and illogical dogma of the Fallen Angels has been built. It is explained in Vol. II. of the _Secret Doctrine_. All our “Egos” are thinking and rational entities (_Manasa-putras_) who had lived, whether under human or other forms, in the precedent _life-cycle_ (Manvantara), and whose Karma it was to incarnate in the _man_ of this one. It was taught in the MYSTERIES that, having delayed to comply with this law (or having “refused to create” as Hinduism says of the _Kumaras_ and Christian legend of the Archangel Michael), _i.e._, having failed to incarnate in due time, the bodies predestined for them got defiled (Vide Stanzas VIII. and IX. in the “Slokas of Dzyan,” Vol. II. Secret Doctrine, pp. 19 and 20), hence the original sin of the senseless forms and the punishment of the _Egos_. That which is meant by the rebellious angels being hurled down into Hell is simply explained by these pure Spirits or Egos being imprisoned in bodies of unclean matter, flesh. [39] “Verily, I say unto you, that whosoever looketh at a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” (Matt. v., 28.) IX. ON THE KAMA-LOKA AND DEVACHAN. ON THE FATE OF THE LOWER “PRINCIPLES.” ENQ. You spoke of _Kama-loka_, what is it?